Player Dialogue Improvements

Overview

List of changes

Fallout 3 (Tale of Two Wastelands)

One of the main offenders of Fallout 3's writing is the player dialogue, which has a tendency to come off as either unavoidably hostile (e.g., compansion dismissal), its high-intelligence dialogue sometimes coming off as stating the obvious (e.g. "So you fight the Good Fight with your voice on GNR"), or simply straight-up cheesy and laughable at times. The main objective of this mod is to improve upon these kinds of dialogue.

• []As mentioned before, player dialogue that comes up as forcibly harsh and insensitive, dialogue that makes the player sound naive, and other cringe-worthy and weird pieces of player dialogue have been greatly improved and rewritten.

  []Changed the dialogue when dismissing a companion to sound much more nicer and less like treating them as expendable henchmen.

  []Improved the infamously vague description of the Lone Wanderer's father in Megaton so he/she is actually more specific about James' appearance. ("Middle aged-man from Vault 101" instead of "Middle-aged guy", there's about dozens of people in Megaton who look middle-aged).

  []Improved plenty of speech dialogue so they come off as more convincing.

  []Improved intelligence checks so it sounds way less like dialogue that makes you go "No shit, Sherlock".

  []Changed some of the dialogue to exclude nomenclature that wouldn't make sense for someone who is recently out of a Vault, for example meeting with Gob and calling him a ghoul when you don't even know about the term yet.

  []Optional player dialogue that usually has the NPC chew the player out for being dumb now requires low amounts of intelligence. (e.g., mistaking a monarch as in butterfly instead of king to Dave when talking about his father)

  []Added an extended version of the Vault 101 scouting report, explaining how you know about the bottle cap currency and raiders to make up for the lack of an in-universe explanation.

  []Added a third, neutral option for "Activate A3-21 Recall Code Violet".

  []Some minor dialogue tweaks.

  New Vegas

  While Fallout 3 tends to be criticized for the frequent questionable writings in player dialogue, New Vegas' player dialogue isn't perfect, either.

  []Rewritten parts of the low-intelligence dialogue to sound less caveman-like, matching with NV's new style of low-intelligence dialogue.

  []Changed the dialogue when talking to Joshua and the shaman in Honest Hearts so the Courier sounds less clueless. The original dialogue is kept for low-intelligence Couriers, however.